On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 4:07 PM Mike Dean <dean...@aquinas.edu> wrote:
> Hi Carl: > Is \include "english.ly" different from \language "english"? > It's an old form that predates \language "english". I'm an old dog, so sometimes I forget the new tricks. At any rate, your snippet didn't include \language "english", so I had to fix it. > > Part of my residing in the weeds is not being sure where \define command > (and its relatives like \defineBarLine) ought to go...while the > compilation didn't crash, the bar line construction was ignored in this case > \define always goes at the top level -- outside of any other expressions. The other change I had to make in order to avoid errors was to replace #f with "" as the third element in the \defineBarLine list. The documentation allows the use of #f, but it threw an error and I changed it to "", which worked. That was a successful guess on my part. Carl
